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Friday, June 23, 2006

Golf Term – what’s a loft?

It is the angle of the clubface which is measured in degrees.

A driver typically has between nine and eleven degrees loft.

As you go along from the longer irons (#3 iron, #4 iron) to the shorter ones (#9 iron, pitching wedge, sand wedge) the irons will get loftier.